{"id":58718,"date":"2009-12-01T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=134305"},"modified":"2009-12-01T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T16:11:23","slug":"more-grandparents-raising-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/58718","title":{"rendered":"More Grandparents Raising Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to some statistics<\/a>, the number of grandparents and relatives helping to raise kids has increased and is expected to increase.<\/p>\n

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Grandparents parenting image: sxc.hu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Many of these are doing it on their own when parents can’t or won’t.\u00a0 Some even are raising great grandchildren.\u00a0\u00a0This even includes adopting \u00a0these children.\u00a0 If grandparents aren’t raising grandchildren on their own, they\u00a0are helping.<\/p>\n

Both my husband and I grew up in multigenerational households with grandparents living with\u00a0 us all or part of the time.\u00a0 They pitched in with child care and helped our moms who were busy with farmwork.\u00a0 When our daughter was younger, we sometimes lived with my husband’s brother and his family.\u00a0 Or their children were at our house much of the time.\u00a0 My mother-in-law, at various times helped raise one or more of her grandchildren and might have them living with her and Dad for awhile.\u00a0 It was a matter of everyone pitching in to help.<\/p>\n

When relatives can pitch in to care for children and give them the security of a family environment, it usually works out better than for children to be shuttled from foster home to foster home.\u00a0 A friend\u00a0 is in the process of adopting her 8-month old grandson.\u00a0 Even though she never expected to raise children again, other than helping out with grandchildren, she wants to know who is caring for the baby and have input into his upbringing.\u00a0 So adopting him is the solution for him and her.<\/p>\n

For more information of grandparents raising grandchildren and great grandchildren, you may like to read Peggy O’Hare’s informative article, More Grandparents Parenting Again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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More Grandparents Raising Kids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to some statistics, the number of grandparents and relatives helping to raise kids has increased and is expected to increase. Grandparents parenting image: sxc.hu Many of these are doing it on their own when parents can’t or won’t.\u00a0 Some even are raising great grandchildren.\u00a0\u00a0This even includes adopting \u00a0these children.\u00a0 If grandparents aren’t raising grandchildren […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}